How to make coconut milk at home
how to make coconut milk in just 10 minutes
Servings 2 cups
Ingredients
- 1 coconut 2 cups grated fresh coconut
- 2 to 2.5 cups water
Instructions
- If using fresh coconut, break the coconut. Collect the water( it’s the coconut water) and chop the white flesh of coconut into small pieces.
- If you are using frozen grated coconut, thaw the coconut and add 2 cups of tightly packed coconut to the blender.
- Add 1 cup water to the chopped coconut and blend it for 5 minutes. Make sure to stop the blender in between to avoid getting overheated.
- Strain the mixture using a nut milk bag or strainer or cheesecloth. The strained white liquid is coconut milk, usually called thick or first extract coconut milk.
- Now put the residual coconut mixture into the blender again and add 1 to 1.5 cups of water. Blend it for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Extract the coconut milk like you did before into another bowl, and this yields a little thin coconut milk and called second extract coconut milk or thin coconut milk.
- If you do not want to extract twice, add 2 cups of water for one coconut (approximately 2 cups of grated coconut), blend it smooth, and squeeze the milk.